New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 27 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
Subchapter 22 - OPERATING PERMITS
Section 7:27-22.18 - Source emissions testing and monitoring
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) This section sets forth the procedures by which the Department will implement the source emissions testing and monitoring requirements contained in an approved operating permit. Any deadline in this section may be extended through written approval by the Department, unless prohibited by Federal regulations. Such procedures shall be consistent with the federal rules for enhanced monitoring of stationary sources, set forth at 40 CFR Part 64.
(b) Within 90 days after approval of the operating permit, or within the time frame specified in the operating permit, a permittee shall submit, pursuant to this section, a request for approval of a protocol prepared in accordance with the Department's published technical manual on Air Contaminant Testing and Monitoring. The protocol shall describe how the permittee proposes to carry out any source emissions testing or monitoring, including any type of CMS monitoring, required by the operating permit. Any revisions of the technical manual will be subject to public input prior to finalization.
(c) The protocol shall, in accordance with the Department's technical manual on Air Contaminant Testing and Monitoring, include details of the implementation of the source emissions testing and monitoring practices required by the operating permit and shall specify sampling and analytical procedures, equipment specifications, example calculations, and the form in which data will be submitted.
(d) The Department will inform the permittee in writing of any deficiencies in the proposed protocol, and will provide a reasonable deadline for correction of the deficiencies. The permittee shall correct the deficiencies and resubmit the protocol to the Department within the deadline.
(e) If the operating permit requires source emissions testing, the permittee shall carry out the following initial source emissions testing procedures:
(f) After completion of the initial source emissions testing required pursuant to (e) above, the permittee shall perform periodic source emissions testing in accordance with any applicable schedule in the operating permit, the approved protocol, and this section.
(g) If the operating permit requires monitoring using a CMS, the permittee shall perform the following initial procedures in accordance with the approved monitoring protocol:
(h) Each source emissions test report or performance specification test report shall be reviewed and certified, pursuant to 7:27-1.39, by a licensed professional engineer or by an industrial hygienist certified by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene.
(i) The owner or operator of a facility subject to this subchapter shall, upon request of the Department, provide testing facilities, exclusive of instrumentation and sensing devices, as may be necessary for the Department to determine the kind and amount of air contaminants emitted from any significant source operation at the facility. During testing by the Department, the significant source operation shall be operated, within their capacities, under conditions requested by the Department. The testing facilities may be either permanent or temporary, at the discretion of the owner or operator of the facility, and shall conform to all applicable laws, regulations, and rules concerning safe construction and safe practice.
(j) Each permittee shall meet all requirements of the approved protocol during the term of the operating permit.
(k) A permittee may seek the approval of the Department for a delay in testing required pursuant to a permit and/or this section. In such case, the following applies:
Department of Environmental Protection
Bureau of Air Compliance & Enforcement--Central
401 E State St
Mail Code 22-03A
PO Box 420
Trenton, NJ 08625-0420.
Bureau of Air Compliance & Enforcement - Northern
7 Ridgedale Avenue
Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927.
Bureau of Air Compliance & Enforcement - Southern
2 Riverside Drive, Suite 201
Camden, NJ 08103-1013.
(l) In a request for a delay of testing, submitted pursuant to (k) above, a permittee may include a waiver of its right to assert that its emissions during the period of delay were any different than the emissions measured by the test when performed (or, if applicable, the emissions calculated based on the measurements taken).